Iran’s New Supreme Leader Issues First Purported Message
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 99 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CNN Breaking News. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We're going to start with breaking news in our national lead. |
| 0:08.0 | Two attacks today on American soil. One at Old Dominion University in Virginia that the FBI now says is being investigated as an act of terrorism inspired by ISIS. |
| 0:20.0 | One person has been killed, two others hospitalized. |
| 0:22.6 | We're going to have much more on that in a moment. The other attack, a clear act of anti-Semitism, |
| 0:28.6 | a terrifying scene today at a Detroit area synagogue which houses an early childcare center and school with 140 students. |
| 0:36.6 | Here's what we know is suspect rammed a vehicle |
| 0:39.1 | all the way into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan. The biggest synagogue, |
| 0:44.9 | we're told in the Detroit area, the Oakland County Sheriff says miraculously, no one was killed |
| 0:49.8 | except for the suspect. When the suspect rammed that vehicle inside the building, |
| 0:53.8 | the sheriff says security guards immediately jumped into action and opened fire on the suspect. The security |
| 0:59.2 | guard was hit by the vehicle and has been wounded but is expected to recover. Emergency responders found |
| 1:05.5 | what appeared to be a large amount of explosives in the back of the vehicle, according to officials briefed on the scene. |
| 1:12.8 | Law enforcement is working to clear the vehicle of explosives, and something inside the vehicle |
| 1:16.8 | did catch fire. Aerial images of the synagogue showed dark smoke billowing out. |
| 1:22.1 | Moments ago, President Trump addressed this attack. |
| 1:27.2 | Before we begin, I want to send our love to the Michigan Jewish community and all of the people in Detroit, |
| 1:35.3 | the Detroit area following the attack on the Jewish synagogue early today, and I've been briefed, fully briefed, |
| 1:43.3 | and it's a terrible thing. |
| 1:46.1 | It is, of course, a massive relief that this attack did not end in the way that so many others have |
| 1:51.3 | with horrific injuries and deaths of innocent people. But there will, of course, be invisible scars, |
| 1:56.6 | psychological scars for those who live through it, people including young children who had to flee |
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